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Well I'm pretty sure that drinking water treated with chloramine is far preferable to drinking untreated water, so even if it is toxic, it's not toxic enough at current levels to merit concern.
It's still worth investigating, because it's good to have confirmation.
Might help to filter out the chemicals before drinking.
You can't really "filter" out these chemicals when they're fully dissolved in the water.
There's always distillation, but that's not practical at all on the scale of drinking water for cities.
Reverse osmosis is the other option, but it's also not cost-effective at city scale.
Ah, good point. Forgot about that one haha.
We have a home distiller and use it for all our drinking water. It's very easy to use. Highly recommend.
What brand or model?
https://www.megahomedistiller.com/collections/frontpage/products/megahome-mh943sbs-water-distiller
Made in Taiwan, too
Thank you. That's far cheaper than I expected.
You can for this. See my comment: https://ponder.cat/post/752896/1007500
Ah, interesting. Didn't think it would be caught by activated carbon. Good to know, thanks.
I had thought activated charcoal could remove the chemicals. No I don't mean city scale. I meant after the water comes out of the tap but before you drink it. City water has to be treated to not harbor too many germs.
It does for this. See: https://ponder.cat/post/752896/1007500
Definitely filter out that H2O chemical
There's di-hydrogen monoxide in the water!
I'm also pretty sure you're correct in saying so. I can't recall any other treatments offhand, but there may be alternatives?